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245 10 $aSpice :$bthe history of a temptation /$cJack Turner.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$cc2004.
300 $axxiv, 352 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[311]-334) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the idea of spice -- I. The spice race -- 1. The spice seekers -- The taste that launched a thousand ships -- Christians and spices -- Debate and stryfe between the Spanyardes and Portugales -- The scent of paradise -- II. Palate -- 2. Ancient appetites -- The aromanauts -- Of spiced parrot and stuffed dormice -- Spice for Trimalchio -- Decline, fall, survival -- 3. Medieval Europe -- The flavors of Cockayne -- Salt, maggots, and rot? -- The regicidal lamprey and the deadly beaver -- Keeping up with the Percys -- III. Body -- 4. The spice of life -- The pharaoh's nose -- Abbot Eberhard's complaint -- Pox, pestilence, and pomanders -- 5. The spice of love -- "When tendre youthe hath wedded stoupyng age" -- Hot stuff -- Spice girls -- Afterword ; or, How to make a small penis splendid -- IV. Spirit -- 6. Food of the gods -- Holy smoke -- God's nostrils -- Odors of sanctity -- Old age, new age -- 7. Some like it bland -- Saint Bernard's family tiff -- Filthy lucre -- Epilogue : the end of the spice age.
520 1 $a"Spice: The History of a Temptation is a history of the spice trade told not in the conventional narrative of politics and economics, nor of conquest and colonization, but through the intimate human impulses that inspired and drove it. Here is an exploration of the centuries-old desire for spice in food, in medicine, in magic, in religion, and in sex - and of the allure of forbidden fruit lingering in the scents of cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, mace, and clove." "We follow spices back through time, through history, myth, archaeology, and literature. We see spices in all their diversity, lauded as love potions and aphrodisiacs, as panaceas and defenses against the plague. We journey from religious rituals in which spices were employed to dispel demons and summon gods to prodigies of gluttony both fantastical and real. We see spices as a luxury for a medieval king's ostentation, as a mummy's deodorant, as the last word in haute cuisine." "Through examining the temptations of spice we follow in the trails of the spice seekers leading from the deserts of ancient Syria to thrill-seekers on the Internet. We discover how spice became one of the first and most enduring links between Asia and Europe. We see in the pepper we use so casually the relic of a tradition linking us to the appetites of Rome, Elizabethan England, and the pharaohs. And we capture the pleasure of spice not only at the table but in every part of life."--BOOK JACKET.
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